Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition Brown Kathleen M.
Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition Brown Kathleen M. Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on…
Specifikacia Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition Brown Kathleen M.
Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition Brown Kathleen M.
Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Their pragmatic focus on restoring the bodily integrity and wellbeing of enslaved people threw up many unexpected challenges. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the human body was universal and faced with the growing racism of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science, abolitionists in North America and Britain focused on undoing slavery's harm to the bodies of the enslaved.
Slavery's undoing became This book explores those challenges.Slavery exploited the bodies of men and women differently: enslaved women needed to be acknowledged as mothers rather than as reproducers of slave property, and enslaved men needed to claim full adult personhood without triggering white fears about their access to male privilege.